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• McDowell County

  … and eastern Europe and blacks from the American South, McDowell became one of the most … became the state’s center of "African-American":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … of having had the first female African-American state legislator in the United …

• McKendree Hospital

  … ’ training school opened at McKendree on March 1, 1910. McKendree was converted to a home for elderly African-American patients in the early 1940s. The hospital that had served the New River communities so faithfully …

• Newspapers

  The Eastern Panhandle was the birthplace of newspaper publishing in West Virginia. Three newspapers were founded there before 1800: the _"Potowmac Guardian":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1906 and Berkeley Advertiser_ in Shepherdstown in …

• Niagara Movement

  … but important activist organization founded by African-American intellectuals at Niagara Falls … right that belongs to a freeborn American’’ and rededicated conferees to ‘‘the … Storer College officials, who, believing the African-American school had been hurt …

• John C. Norman Jr.

  Physician John Clavon Norman Jr., a noted thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon and researcher, was best known for his work toward creating an artificial heart. He was born in "Charleston":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1089 on May 11, …

• Mercer County

  … resident native population at the time of European-American settlement, but the region participated in the … 50,000 in 1920. The increasingly diverse population included large numbers of "African-Americans":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ …

• Parkersburg

  … .org/articles/636, the first school for African-American children in West Virginia, was established as a subscription school in Parkersburg … shovels, arrived in the early 1930s. The American Viscose Corporation started rayon production in South …

• Christopher H. Payne

  … Doctor of Divinity degree from State University in Louisville, Kentucky. In 1888, Payne became the first African-American elected to represent West Virginia at a Republican national convention and later was elected to two …

• Martin Robison Delany

  … 1812-January 24, 1885) was an African-American who was born free in … the Niger Valley region of Africa as a possible site for African-American emigration. In 1861, Delany published … Colored Troops. He was the only African-American Civil War officer to be …

• Demography

  … the mid-18th century, Europeans and Americans of European descent had begun to … grow quickly and attracted many "African-Americans":https://www.wvencyclopedia. … Nationally, residents reporting their race as African-American and Asian accounted for …

• Pocahontas No. 3 Coal Seam

  … 92,000 miners worked in the Pocahontas region. Twenty percent were foreign-born immigrants, 33 percent African-American, and the remainder native-born whites. The Pocahontas coalfield saw little of the endemic violence …

• Dialect

  … .wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2102 in the Eastern Panhandle and Potomac Highlands. "African-Americans":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … of West Virginia. Both Black and European-American speakers of Appalachian and Southern English …

• Douglass High School

  … was transferred, the old school was renamed Barnett in honor of one of Huntington’s pioneer African-American ministers. Appointed principal of the new school in 1925, Henry Davis Hazelwood served until his retirement in …

• Elizabeth Simpson Drewry

  … issues related to the status of Blacks in American society and stressed the importance of education … first political victory in 1950, becoming the first African-American woman elected to the West Virginia state legislature (though "Minnie Buckingham …

• Anne S. Dudley

  … by many of her fellow whites and excoriated in the local newspapers, she was supported by the African-American community. Archilles and Ellen Dixon, literate blacks of Charles Town, provided a log cabin for her …

• The Economy

  … https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2513, American Consolidated National Resources (previously known … part of Mountain Health), and "American Electric Power":http://www. … War. The economic expansion attracted African-Americans from the South as …

• Folk Music

  … parts of West Virginia’s dulcimer heritage. African-Americans were brought as slaves to work … . The real John Hardy, also an African- American, killed a man in a … to marches, Old World favorites, and popular American tunes played by the community brass …

• Freedmen’s Bureau

  … conducted tours to places in the state where African-Americans resided, the agency appointed a sub-agent … . The bureau succeeded in stimulating official interest in public "education of African-Americans":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/26 …

• Garnet High School

  Garnet High School, an African-American high school in "Charleston":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1089, was … Shrewsbury and Lewis streets in Charleston’s former African-American neighborhood known locally as "The …

• Gary

  … Mines report listed 1,479 hand-loading miners employed at Gary, with 227 white Americans, 271 "African-Americans":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/25, 360 "Hungarians":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …

• Henry Louis Gates Jr.

  … Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism_ (1988), a landmark work … cultural history and lasting impact of African slaves who were taken to … projects, including the _Norton Anthology of African American Literature_ and the _Schomburg …

• Geography

  … numbers of immigrants to the state, especially African-Americans and East Europeans. West Virginia’s … is now an overwhelmingly homogeneous population. European Americans account for more than 93 percent and African-Americans 3.7 percent. Eighty percent of …

• Education

  … and "Shepherdstown":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/393. Provisions were made for training African-American teachers with the opening of West Virginia Colored Institute (now "West Virginia State …

• Flick Amendment

  … in West Virginia and the voting rights of African-Americans were not assured. The divergent issues were brought together in the Flick Amendment. … turned out to be of no consequence for African-Americans since the 15th Amendment to the U. …

• Folk Dance

  … and eastern Europeans in the great emigration accompanying the later industrialization of the state. "African-Americans":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/27 took part in both periods of settlement. …